Metal Gear Online – SCENE Expansion Details!

Hello everyone – I’m excited to announce details of the new Metal Gear Online SCENE Expansion pack! Coming in March, there will be tons of new content to keep old and new players alike entertained: new maps, special characters, new gear, and of course a couple surprises.

First, I’m excited to announce that now, in order to make the SCENE Expansion more accessible, players will be able to use their PayPal account, along with their PlayStation Network Wallet, if they so choose, to purchase the SCENE Expansion.

For those players that want to get a head start on the action and pre-order SCENE through Metal Gear Online’s in-game shop or Konami’s shop, there’s a special gift in store. Once the pre-order period starts, one week before the release date, all players who pre-order SCENE will receive a special “cardboard man” head gear for free. It should definitely provide ample cover for any bad hair day.

Now for the stuff I know you all are most excited about, the new maps and characters!

The first new map is Outer Outlet, an all new environment that takes place in a commercial mall area made up of lots of buildings and subterranean areas. Multiple floors with openings onto the areas above and below will offer many unique vantage points from which to stage the action, while the décor will provide plenty of unexpected places to seek cover. It should be ideal for medium to long range battles.

Second is Hazard House, set in a huge three story mansion – a take on the one seen from Act II of the MGS4 single player game. Lots of doors, hallways, and blind corners, will make for intense claustrophobic combat.

Third is Ravaged Riverfront – a take on the Eastern European environment from Act III of the MGS4 single player game – with a large clock tower surrounded by lots of underground and underwater areas. Lots of clear space, perfect for long range attacks.

SCENE will also bring two long awaited, much requested, special characters to MGO – Raiden and Vamp, both with impressive special abilities and offensive power to spare! First is Vamp, knife-expert extraordinaire. You may be able to defeat him once, but that’s no guarantee he won’t be back for more! Second is Raiden, whose appearance belies his extraordinary skill and agility in combat. They are formidable opponents, or one of them can be a great ally to have on your team. Yes, you will indeed be able to have a multiplayer battle between Raiden and Vamp, which is a fun as it looks! More specifics about their abilities will be revealed soon!

Next week, we will be releasing a trailer for SCENE on the PlayStation Network and the PlayStation Blog, so please look out for that. There’s even more on the way with the SCENE Expansion – stay tuned to the PlayStation Blog in the coming weeks for more details!

223 Comments

MGO needs to be fully incorporated into the PSN (i.e. buy everything from the store) because using the Konami ID its a pain that’s why i stop playing the game a few months after released. But im thinking of getting back to it seeing the support that konami is giving the game

Fix Konami ID–then I’ll play–that is what we’d be excited about–we already have a PSN ID and that is enough for Warhawk, Resistance, Resistance 2, Killzone 2 and a plethora of multi-plat shooters—until it is also enough for MGO we will be playing other online games—which is sad, I was in the beta and found it very enjoyable, but the Konami ID thing totally kills it.

I recently got back into MGS4 online and enjoy it very much. I tried to purchase the meme and gene expansion packs when they came out but the process was so painful I ended up giving up and stopped playing MGO till about a month ago . I won’t purchase this one either if it is in the Konami store. Please make the dlc available on PSN. THe single player was excllent (played it over many many times) and I appreciate the continued support of the game and wish I could support it too by purchasing the packs on the PSN. THX

We can use our PSN wallets? Thank you! I might consider picking it up. I like MGO, but i felt incredibly ripped off after the first expansion pack. I spend 10 bucks on the expansaion pack… no downloading? We had to pay 10 bucks for content we already owned? Talk about Nickle and Diming. If this is a REAL download, than i’ll consider it.

Man I don’t care about Trophies. I am not a Trophie [DELETED] like most here. I care about them stopping from cheating in MGO.

Also stop asking about PSN usage or getting rid of Konami ID because they won’t.Besides its not that big of hassle now if you can read and follow directions. Just the way i see it.

I will be buying this pack when it comes out but if someone from Konami is reading this DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHEATERS IN SURVIVAL AND TOURNMENT MODE!!! They are single handly killing this game with there constant cheating. Here is proof.

I was such a huge mgo fan. But while attempting to answer a survey for the game, it refused to accept my konami id and password. I spent over half an hour trying to reset them..just to answer a survey for you guys. The answer to the survey is that I quit playing MGO, which sucks because I truly enjoyed TSNE despite the 4 minute waits, but I cannot support such a miserable online concept when other great online games exist. And the lack of trophies is pathetic.

YES FINALLY ON THE PS STORE. I could never buy anything on the mgo shop because for some reason it said mgo doesn’t recognize this card financially. Anyway Yes finally I can get an expansion. BTW if you don’t know me I’m katsuo kaito ranked 3rd in base :)

Dear KONAMI, this game got ruined by the cheaters and glitchers a long time ago, the MGO community is plagued by whiny kids that only care about their ranks and team stack all the time, the lag is terrible and the hit detection is even worse.
You have had almost a year to take care of these issues but you never cared.
A MGO shortcut is also needed it takes like 5 minutes or more to access MGO.
This a game that had the potential to be awesome but you never cared and never listened to the community, now is to late…

Please merge MGO with PSN ditch the Konami id stuff…or at the very least put the DLC on the PSstore. I know so many people who haven’t even played online because of the hassle Konami Online makes it. The game is great….why must you guys impede people from playing it? :(

I haven’t played online in forever. The ranking system is harder than Gears of war 2’s. I played online for months and never got higher than a 3 rank on MGO. I just gave up on ranking up my character. I know i suck at the game but I dont suck that bad that I come in last place in matches. I like COD4 rank up system the best as far as shooters go.

I will probably get this bundled with the MEME expansion because i was holding off on getting that because i was expecting a new expansion soon. its what happened with the GENE expansion, i bought it and then about a month later the MEME expansion came out and it was bundled for less.